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The major browsers now make a distinction between the homepage that appears when the browser starts up, and the new tab page that appears when you open a tab (although you can set the homepage to ...
Most web browsers’ new tab pages are either dreadfully boring (see: Google Chrome) or full of unwanted clutter (see: Microsoft Edge).
The researchers tested users’ ability to recall Web pages and found that URLs and textual descriptions (by which most browsers organize their history) weren’t as easy to remember as colors or ...
When web browsers finally turned off plug-ins in the 2010s, the built-in PDF viewers became the only way to show PDF files inside web pages.
A subdued address bar and revamped new-tab page gives the browser a clean look that the Russian company says is better suited to Web apps. Yandex plans a mobile-device version later.
Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a ...
Amazon’s Kindle devices are meant first and foremost for reading eBooks. But there’s also a web browser. Up until a few years ago, that browser was officially considered “experimental ...
Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s From the archives: Does anybody remember Erwise? Viola? Cello? Let's reminisce.